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Saturday Oct 22, 2005

The
product of the week is the Minoura workstand. I bought this off a
colleague who is moving to the US and since it his heavy did not want
to take it. My previous workstand held the bike under the bottom
bracket which had the distinct disadvantage that it would foul the
gear cables making adjustment impossible. However I never quite got
around to replacing it, until this week. It also stood no chance of
holding the triplet.

As “luck” would have it I got to use the new stand
today as the triplet got a puncture I was able to get home and then
just wondered how good this workstand really is. Well it is as good
as in the picture. Lifting the bike up there was more of a challenge
but not impossible (note to self, next time watch the middle chain so
you don't ruin another shirt). Once up there I was able to carry out
all the usual bits of bike tweaking you would expect. New tube in
the front tyre, adjust the gears so I can now get into top gear.
While I never even thought about the triplet when I bought this I can
now see that it could be this bike that benefits most. It's very
hard to adjust the gears on it without a stand as the levers are just
so far away from the gears.